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Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages



Simple.

Just take the kernel-source-2.4.34.tar.bz2 tar ball out of the sid
system and recompile using make-kpkg under woody, using the apporiate
config file....



On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 18:41, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Where I'm working, we have Debian stable deployed on a number of boxes. For
> hardware support reasons, we've had to grab newer kernels from testing, and
> have been reasonably successful at not dragging in half of testing with
> them.
> 
> We're going to want to upgrade everything to 2.4.23 ASAP, but I'd prefer not
> to drag in half of unstable with this upgrade.
> 
> So, I was wondering how to go about taking the source package for 2.4.23-686
> (and the SMP version) and backport them to stable?
> 
> Is it as simple as taking the source package and building it in a stable
> pbuilder chroot, or is there more black magic involved with kernel packages?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andrew
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